I'm thinking of taking the tower to Bestbuy or some place that will fix it for me. I'm not sure I want to muck about with this problem; it's my D drive and it has EVERYTHING I want to save.
Pictures, music...more pictures...
THAT drive was never supposed to be troubled...no program or internet has ever touched it! :( :( :(
Volume on drive D may be corrupted. Run chkdsk.
IF I wanted to try to do this myself, how do I do it? From what I've read, it wants me to go into msdos to put in the command...? I used to get into MSDOS from either a restart or a little window I could call up when up and running.
What's been happening is that the D drive isn't recognized by my computer...at all. Big old question mark on it. Then when I restart, the D drive comes back for a while.
Every night I hibernate my computer. Some days it comes out of sleep and I have my d drive, some days I don't. Last night I tried to hibernate and got the 'run chckdsk' message.
So. I read how to do this, and was ready to do so, but realized that the computer doesn't even SEE the drive right now. I can't check that which is showing up as invalid.
Do I have to wait until the computer recognizes at some random restart and THEN run chckdsk ?
There should be a utility for that in your programs. I think under tools.
I'll use the utility now that I can see the disk drive! :bounce:
However, first I am backing up the drive on the brand spanking new external H/D I bought.
I had a "data only" drive that exhibited behavior like that once upon a time. It was becoming increasingly unreliable and rather obviously was beginning its final death throes, so I replaced it. Newer, larger drives were becoming so cheap!